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Does the legal profession need scholars?

We do not need practising lawyers to be devoted purely to the pursuit of knowledge. We cannot expect it of them, nor would it be in their client's best interests. Lots of lawyers do not have to think or learn in the scholarly sense. They understand, research, diagnose, advise, act.
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Eversheds to pilot new combined LPC and training contract

Eversheds is set to pilot a new integrated training programme which will combine the Legal Practice Course (LPC) and the training contract. The new scheme, dubbed the 'Combined Study Training Contract', has been developed in collaboration with BPP Law School and the Solicitors Regulation Authority, and will be available in London, Leeds and Birmingham.
2 minute read

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Education and Training Initiative of the Year: DLA Piper

DLA Piper secured the Education and Training Initiative of the Year Award for the imaginative training programme that was implemented to support the roll out of a new budgeting tool. Following its introduction, usage of the tool increase eightfold in less than a year. This has allowed the firm to meet client demands for a more far-reaching and accurate flexible fees programme. The software programme Budgeteer allows users to create budgets for client matters that estimate the number of hours it will take fee earners working at different levels and hourly rates to complete the work. With the help of historic data, partners can then calculate the impact different gearing, discounting, recovery rates and other factors have on the work. This means that partners can have a more informed conversation with clients about fees and fee structures at the start of the case. They can also make commercial decisions on how to run the case as it unfolds.
2 minute read

International Edition

The hard facts - why aspiring lawyers still need more than just the internet

If I were to be completely honest about it, I'd say that I went through at least a third of my undergraduate law degree in virtual ignorance of the one thing you would expect a law student to know quite a bit about: case law. I didn't really know how to find case law. When I did find it, I didn't really know how to use it. I certainly didn't know where it came from (or rather, I didn't know where the law reports I was required to read came from).
4 minute read

International Edition

Legal education review under scrutiny as profession awaits first progress report

"Even if the research team manages to make recommendations in time for the 2012 deadline, I am sure the regulators will drag their heels when it comes to implementation" - Cynics call for more progress on the review of legal education...
6 minute read

International Edition

Number of law grads continuing on to vocational training sees drop-off

The percentage of law graduates signing up to full-time vocational law study fell last year, with 26.4% of 2010 graduates embarking on further study or training in the UK within six months of leaving university, according to new research. The number of graduates signing up for the Legal Practice Course, Bar Professional Training Course and ILEX courses was down 3.7% on the previous year, according to an annual survey of graduate destinations from the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU).
2 minute read

International Edition

Applications to study law at university see 5% year-on-year fall

The number of candidates applying to study law in the 2011 academic year has fallen by more than 5% on last year, according to figures published by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). The figures show that only 13,139 applied to study law at the 26 universities that supplied figures to UCAS, after 13,858 applied last year, equating to a drop of 5.2%.
2 minute read

International Edition

Training and education

The pros and cons of part-time law courses and an initiative bringing global law training to India's law students
1 minute read

International Edition

Slaughters invests in associates with new development initiatives

Slaughter and May has overhauled its associate development programme, bringing in a number of measures intended to improve feedback for junior lawyers and get them more involved in client development. Associates are being encouraged to build relationships with in-house lawyers of their own level of seniority and to think more about business development themselves, rather than seeing it as the reserve of partners.
2 minute read

International Edition

A&O sends partners on client relationship training to improve 'off-deal' advice

Allen & Overy (A&O) has drafted in McKinsey & Company to train its partners to build stronger client relationships by providing 'off-deal' strategic advice, after a client survey found the firm's lawyers were too focused on technical aspects. The programme, which has been rolled out to 100 partners holding the firm's most important client relationships, will focus on encouraging them to assist clients on strategic issues unrelated to deals.
3 minute read

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